Pneumonia Part 1

Pneumonia is an infection in the lung tissue caused by microbes, creating inflammation.

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When you have pneumonia an infection occurs in the lungs, this will bring water to the lungs making it harder to breathe.

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The alveoli are located in the lungs, which are tiny air sacs.

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When you breath in air, air goes from the trachea, to the bronchi, then the bronchioles and then the alveoli.

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Gas exchanges in the lunges through the alveoli which are wrapped by capillaries.

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Carbon dioxide is what we exhale out of the lungs.

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Coughing is way we protect ourselves from microbes.

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Pneumonia is created when a nasty microbe colonizes in the bronchioles or the alveoli.

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Pneumonia is normally caused by viruses or bacteria.

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What is the most common viral infection to cause pneumonia?

• tuberculosis

• common cold

• influenza

• bronchitis